1. A. The purpose of the Social Services to Adults (SSTA) Program is to engage clients and their formal and informal resources while in the process of decreasing risk to the client and achieving successful client goals through identification, linkage and enhancement of client supports and resources. This includes:

   1. (1) Achieving or maintaining the client’s safe living environment in the community with formal and informal supports;
   2. (2) Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency;
   3. (3) Preventing or avoiding abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation;
   4. (4) Preventing or reducing unnecessary or inappropriate institutionalization;
   5. (5) Achieving or maintaining economic self-support; and
   6. (6) Securing necessary and appropriate institutional care services.
2. B. The program seeks to build, sustain, and augment, rather than to replace, the adult's formal or informal resources.
3. C. SSTA targets service delivery resources to those clients most in need.

Authority: Human Services Article, §§4-205(a), 4-207, 5-205(a), and 5-207, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: November 4, 1977 (4:23 Md. R. 1729)

Regulation .11 amended effective November 3, 1978 (5:22 Md. R. 1672); September 7, 1979 (6:18 Md. R. 1457); July 1, 1980 (7:13 Md. R. 1272); August 17, 1981 (8:16 Md. R. 1362)

Regulations .01—.11 under Community Home Care Services repealed effective July 29, 1985 (12:15 Md. R. 1510)

Regulations .01—.12 adopted effective July 29, 1985 (12:15 Md. R. 1510)

Regulation .03A amended effective November 26, 1990 (17:23 Md. R. 2732)

Regulation .12 amended effective October 6, 1986 (13:20 Md. R. 2209); July 12, 1987 (14:14 Md. R. 1570); July 1, 1988 (15:11 Md. R. 1330); July 1, 1989 (16:12 Md. R. 1333)

Regulation .12 repealed effective November 26, 1990 (17:23 Md. R. 2732)

Recodified from COMAR 07.02.15 to 07.06.13, December, 1992

Chapter revised effective October 29, 2001 (28:21 Md. R. 1854)

Regulation .02B amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .03 amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .05 amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .06 amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .07 amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .08C amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .09 amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Regulation .11D amended effective December 1, 2008 (35:24 Md. R. 2075)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 07.06.13 to COMAR 07.02.15, effective June, 2009

Regulation .01 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .02B amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .03 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .03A amended effective August 20, 2012 (39:16 Md. R. 1079)

Regulation .03C amended effective April 18, 2011 (38:8 Md. R. 505)

Regulation .04A—C amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .05 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .06 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .07 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .08 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .09 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .10 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .11 amended effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)

Regulation .12 repealed effective April 18, 2011 (38:8 Md. R. 505)